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the journal of Michael Werneburg

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Toronto, 2005.01.11

I met with another headhunter, today. If I'm to wind up with a permanent job, once again, I'm hope to get into a slightly different line of work. I want to do more of the data modelling and possibly data warehousing work that I've been doing on and off for the past few years. What I'm hoping to get out of is the kind of work that involves carrying a pager.

Anyway, after the interview, I spent the afternoon playing Sim City 4. After bridging the gap between the early struggle to build a stable city and the second part of the game, which is running the functioning city, I was pleased to find myself with an economically sound city of 30,000 people. Then the game crashed. It doesn't have autosave, so I've lost everything. I'd forgotten what it was like to play this ineresting but infuriatingly unstable game. Ah well.

rand()m quote

In one of history's more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnation without government permission.

Newsweek, Aug 20 2007